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Last week Japanese internet giant Ratuken bought Viber — a popular messaging app for mobile devices — for $900 million. Today Facebook has blown away that transaction out of the way by purchasing WhatsApp for the tiny...

Scientists have been working on a system that can distinguish when someone is lying in a tweet.
The system, which is being called Pheme, operates by taking into account the information and sources which disseminate it. It looks ...

A new start-up company, Eterni.me, is looking to create virtual avatars of people, and let them live beyond death in a virtual space.
The idea the company has is to go through your Facebook information and use it to create an ava...

Microsoft recently revealed that it would be rebranding SkyDrive under its new name OneDrive, and today the company officially launched the service. To be clear, the service never stopped working. But as part of its relaunch, Mic...

New documents released by Edward Snowden show how the NSA went after WikiLeaks as well as those associated it.
Details of these efforts have been published by The Intercept, and they show how the NSA as well as the UK’s Go...

Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director of Valve, has denied rumors that it is keeping an eye on user’s browser history through the Valve Anti-Cheat system (VAC).
The rumor was given strength by a thread on Reddit tha...

For those that are interested in coding, but want a non-traditional way to learn, CodeCombat may be just the thing for you.
The game is a browser-based, built through java, and is free to play on their website. It was designed to...

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, is going to meet this week with French President Francois Hollande to discuss the possibility of a Europe’s own internet network, one that will allow them to avoid US spying.
Merkel, w...

This is kind of amazing. Someone has set up a Twitch stream titled “Twitch Plays Pokemon.” And this livestream of the classic GameBoy games is different from any other because over 30,000 people are controlling the ga...

Jackson Palmer, the founder of Dogecoin, has reportedly turned down investment offers that are worth $500,000.
Palmer, who is from Australia, turned down the offers from two venture capitalist firms because he feels that Dogecoin...

Kickstart has announced that last Wednesday, the site was contacted by law enforcement officials regarding a security breach on their website. Hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to user data such as “usernames, e...

Titanfall is perhaps 2014’s most highly-anticipated video game, and it’s also being pushed to become one of the biggest franchises of the next-generation. With so much excitement around this game, people rejoiced that...

BitPay, a major bitcoin company, has just the released an open source library that it hopes will make it easy for developers to create apps for the digital cryptocurrency.
The company, which specializes in processing bitcoins, ar...

A new study is claiming that online trolls are more than just simply mean, they’re psychopaths and sadists as well.
The paper, Trolls just want to have fun, was a result of the combined efforts from three different Canadian...